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  • Three killed in Israeli airstrikes, Syria says

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 5:26pm EDT

    Israeli planes fired missiles at the suburbs of Damascus and the Tartus region, Syrian media report citing military Three soldiers have been killed and three more wounded in an Israeli air attack on the suburbs of Damascus on Sunday, a Syrian military source confirmed to SANA news agency. The missiles are said to have been […]

  • Sanctions are ‘wrong to the core’ – Hungarian parliament leader

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 3:12pm EDT

    The EU’s economic war on Russia will cripple Europe’s economy, Laszlo Kover warned Hungarian National Assembly Speaker Laszlo Kover has condemned the EU’s economic sanctions on Russia as “wrong to the core,” predicting economic devastation as a result. Kover, a long-time critic of the EU, added that Hungary’s success depends on cooperation with both East […]

  • Climate change causing skin cancer spike – UK doctors

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 2:20pm EDT

    Higher summer temperatures will increase the rate of melanomas and other deadly cancers, experts warn Hotter summer temperatures could lead to an uptick in melanomas and other deadly cancers as inhabitants of northern countries spend more time in the sun, a handful of doctors and academics have warned, voicing their concerns in The Guardian on […]

  • Brand-new superyacht destroyed by fire (VIDEO)

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 12:27pm EDT

    The $24 million vessel was delivered to her owner last month Fire completely destroyed a brand-new $24 million superyacht on Thursday in Spain, a few weeks after it was delivered to its owner, Italian businessman Paolo Scudieri. Spanish sea search and rescue agency Salvamento Maritimo published a photo of the burning 44-meter Aria SF, saying […]

  • Car plows through fundraiser crowd leaving casualties

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 11:38am EDT

    A 24-year-old man has been arrested for homicide after running down people in the US state of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State Police have charged a 24-year-old man with two counts of homicide after he allegedly drove his vehicle through a crowd at a community fundraiser event on Saturday in the town of Berwick, killing one person. […]

  • NHS hospitals using woke terms like ‘birthing people’ – media

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 11:07am EDT

    Despite the switch to ‘inclusive’ definitions, there is not a single record of a patient using them A third of England’s state-run maternity hospitals have adopted terms such as ‘birthing people’ or ‘pregnant people’, in addition to or in place of ‘mother’ or ‘pregnant woman’, according to the Daily Mail. Such de-gendered language is promoted […]

  • UK PM hopeful calls for ramping up sanctions against Iran

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 10:53am EDT

    The attack on novelist Salman Rushdie should become “a wake-up call for the West,” Rishi Sunak has said UK prime minister candidate Rishi Sunak on Sunday called for a tightening of sanctions against Iran in response to the recent attack on novelist Salman Rushdie. The Indian-born British-American writer was stabbed on Friday in New York […]

  • Man rams US Capitol barricade, starts shooting

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 10:31am EDT

    Police say the suspect opened fire before killing himself as officers approached A man drove his car into a barricade at the US Capitol in Washington DC on Sunday morning before firing several shots into the air and killing himself with his own gun, according to law enforcement. Reports suggest that the suspect set his […]

  • Snubbed Ukrainian grain heading to Russia-friendly Syria – Reuters

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 10:30am EDT

    The first vessel to raise anchor after the grain deal was struck has had to change course after a Lebanese buyer rejected the shipment The first grain ship to leave Ukraine since an internationally brokered deal to resume exports is approaching the Syrian port of Tartus after failing to offload its cargo in Lebanon, Reuters […]

  • EU ramps up exports to Russia

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 9:42am EDT

    Shipments jumped 18% in June, rising for the second month in a row after a trough in April EU exports to Russia surged by 18% in June from the previous month, reaching €4.45 billion ($4.57 billion), foreign trade data from the statistics agency Eurostat shows. This was the second consecutive month that exports to Russia […]

  • US congressional delegation arrives in Taiwan

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 9:26am EDT

    The lawmakers are visiting the island amid historic tensions with China A US congressional delegation touched down in Taiwan on Sunday for a two-day visit. The lawmakers’ arrival comes less than two weeks after a separate visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sparked a flurry of military activity in the Taiwan Strait and sent relations […]

  • US fumes over India’s role in transporting banned Russian oil – Reuters

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 8:37am EDT

    New Delhi says Washington is worried that oil products from Russia were transferred to the US via India Washington has approached New Delhi with queries about Russian oil products that were allegedly shipped to the US from India, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Michael Patra. According to Patra, the […]

  • Instagram and Facebook apps monitor browsing habits without consent – researcher

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 8:20am EDT

    Meta apps inject a tracking code into websites when people are viewing them Instagram and Facebook apps track what people do when browsing third-party websites without their consent, privacy researcher Felix Krause has warned. Krause, a former Google engineer, wrote on a blogpost on Wednesday that the iOS app injects codes into every website shown […]

  • The US War on Drugs isn’t what it seems – and Colombia’s new president wants to end it

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 8:07am EDT

    Gustavo Petro promises a major blow to US hegemony over Latin America Leftist Gustavo Petro was inaugurated as Colombia’s new president on August 7, ushering in what will likely be an unprecedented political swing for what is a perennially right-wing government. In his first address, Petro mentioned many important issues that face Colombia including climate […]

  • Berlin fails to secure LNG imports from Gulf nation – media

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 7:02am EDT

    Qatar is instead supplying its gas to Italy Germany has so far failed to deliver on promises to secure liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies from Qatar, the newspaper Deutsche Wirtschaftsnachrichten reported on Friday. According to the article, citing a report from the magazine Focus online, none of the major German energy companies including EnBW, RWE, […]

  • US faces shortage of ketchup – Bloomberg

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 6:05am EDT

    Drought and high fuel and fertilizer prices could soon deprive American kitchens of the tomato sauce Rising prices on fuel and fertilizers in the US in tandem with extreme weather conditions could lead to a shortage of tomatoes, thus sending prices on tomato sauces even higher, Bloomberg reported on Saturday, citing producers. According to the […]

  • Poll reveals clear leader for next UK PM

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 5:44am EDT

    More than 60% of Tories will vote for Liz Truss to be Britain’s next prime minister, a survey finds Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has a 22-point lead over former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak in the race to become the next British prime minister, according to a survey by polling firm Opinium Research published on Saturday. […]

  • Jerusalem shooting suspect detained – police

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 5:34am EDT

    The alleged gunman who injured eight people near the Western Wall has turned himself in, the authorities say Israeli security forces have detained a suspected gunman who injured eight people near Jerusalem’s iconic Western Wall, the authorities said on Sunday. According to the police, the man turned himself in after a large-scale manhunt. The police […]

  • Kiev comments on car crash with diplomats in Vienna

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 4:17am EDT

    The driver tried to run from the police and declined a breathalyzer test Ukrainian diplomatic personnel were involved in a traffic accident in Vienna, in which the driver attempted to flee the scene and refused to be tested for alcohol by police. Austrian police said that a car crashed into a vehicle at a red […]

  • British energy bills forecast to go through the roof

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 3:36am EDT

    They are set to cost Britons more than two months’ wages next year, union body warns Energy bills in the United Kingdom are expected to cost more than two months of average take-home pay in 2023, according to a new report published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) on Friday. The TUC says the average […]

  • Cartel violence engulfs Mexican border cities

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 2:20am EDT

    Gang members are reportedly targeting civilians and blocking roads The cities of Tijuana, Mexicali, Rosarito, and Ensenada on the US-Mexico border have been besieged by violence as rival drug cartels battle over territory and wage war with police. The violence has been so severe that the US Consulate in Tijuana advised its employees to “shelter […]

  • China drills one of world’s deepest oil deposits – media

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 1:18am EDT

    Drilling wells at the Shunbei reserve are 8,000 meters deep, according to Xinhua news agency China’s largest oil refiner Sinopec has reportedly extracted crude oil and natural gas from a newly drilled oil reserve with wells around 8,000 meters deep, in the Tarim Basin of the Xinjiang region. According to Xinhua agency, citing the company […]

  • Crimea sets grain harvest record

    RT - Aug 14th 2022 1:18am EDT

    The region has reported its best crop since the Soviet era A record grain crop has been harvested in the Russian Republic of Crimea, head of the region Sergey Aksyonov said on Thursday. “Crimean farmers have harvested a record crop of more than 2.1 million tons, which is 700,000 tons more than last year,” he […]

  • Obama kept classified nuclear documents too – Trump

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 4:57pm EDT

    The former president accused his predecessor of doing the same thing that supposedly got his Florida home raided Former US president Donald Trump has decried the apparent double standard at play after the FBI raided his Florida home earlier this week, supposedly seeking classified documents relating to nuclear weapons. Trump argued that his predecessor, Barack […]

  • Macron approves NATO enlargement

    RT - Aug 13th 2022 4:56pm EDT

    More than two thirds of the alliance’s members have now agreed to Finland and Sweden’s accession French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday signed the official documents approving Finland and Sweden’s applications to become NATO members. While Macron once called the US-led military bloc “brain dead,” he has switched tack since Russia launched its military operation […]